Have you visited the Stack’s-Bowers Galleries website? When you visit our website, you’ll find a host of useful features. You’ll find all the latest auction news, like our upcoming Stack’s-Bowers Galleries Official Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo. You’ll find exciting opportunities to consign your rare coins and currency with us, such [...]

You are invited to see and hear THREE WINNERS in Waltham, Massachusetts, on April 11. A great evening program about coins, tokens, medals, and paper money featuring three well-known numismatic personalities awaits you at a special combined meeting of the New England Currency Club and the Boston Numismatic Society. The BNS, founded in 1860, is [...]

The Burnett Anderson Memorial Award for Excellence in Numismatic Writing is presented annually to a researcher, author or journalist in recognition of his or her career contributions to numismatics. First conferred posthumously in 1999 to its namesake—a newsman’s journalist—the award is sponsored by F & W Publications, and the winner is selected in a cooperative [...]

News, comments, musings, and items from here and there, about this, that, and the other, or whatever. Do you have one? Among our favorite modern coins is the 2005 Ocean in View nickel. On a whim we bought a box full of them from the Mint. We have yet to see one in circulation, however. [...]

News, comments, musings, and items from here and there, about this, that, and the other, or whatever. Antiques: The Air Force fleet of aerial tankers “dates back to the Eisenhower era,” according to an article in USA Today. Low mintages: In 2009 the various mints turned in record low production figures for our era. There [...]

News, comments, musings, and items from here and there. Strange situation the other day: In Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, the temperature was 32, but in Orlando, Florida, on the heels of the FUN Convention, the temperature was 31. Moreover, not to be overlooked was a New England climate that was cooler than usual last summer, seems [...]

It is early in the year-time to share a few thoughts on the rare coin market. We refer to the entire numismatic markets-not just coins, but also tokens, medals, paper money, and associated items-including numismatic books. As to last year, one of our clients and friend, a leading New York City financial figure, said that [...]

So many dollars, so few people interested “Washington, the nation has a problem: the growing glut of dollar coins,” notes Beth Deisher in an editorial in Coin World. “And it’s time that you-government leaders who are responsible for creating and administering policy for the nation’s circulating coinage-sit down and honestly and forthrightly find a solution [...]